Gesture-Driven Content Sharing Across Varying Display Characteristics

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing portable computing devices face limitations in quickly sharing digital content between devices with varying display characteristics, often requiring custom applications and specialized interactions, which can negatively impact the user experience.

Innovation Solution

Implementing gesture-driven content sharing between computing devices, where a user can initiate content sharing using gestures such as 'flinging' or 'splash' motions on a touch screen, allowing content to be shared wirelessly between devices with different display characteristics, using a publisher-subscriber model and content sharing service to handle the delivery of information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If custom applications and specialized interactions are used for content sharing, then content sharing functionality is achieved, but user experience is negatively impacted and operation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent sharing capabilityVSAvoiduser experience

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by enabling the touch screen to serve multiple functions: it acts as both the display interface and the gesture recognition surface for content sharing. The same touch screen that displays content also detects sharing gestures, eliminating the need for separate control mechanisms and improving ease of operation while maintaining content sharing capability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies self-service by allowing the content sharing function to automatically detect and respond to user gestures without requiring manual activation of specific applications. The touch screen itself detects the gesture and initiates the sharing process, reducing the need for specialized applications and improving user experience

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If standard touch-based interaction mechanisms are used, then ease of operation is maintained, but content sharing between devices with varying display characteristics is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetouch-based interactionVSAvoidcross-device content sharing

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the content sharing system adaptable to different display characteristics in real-time. The system dynamically adjusts the sharing process based on the target device's screen size, resolution, and technology, allowing standard touch interactions to work across diverse devices without sacrificing adaptability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies parameter changes by automatically adjusting content parameters (such as resolution, size, and format) based on the target device's display characteristics. This allows the same touch-based interaction mechanism to effectively share content across devices with varying screens by modifying the content parameters to match the receiving device's capabilities

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If content sharing requires specialized applications, then specific sharing functions are achieved, but device complexity and operation difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent sharing functionVSAvoidapplication requirements

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the extraction principle by removing the dependency on specialized content sharing applications. The core sharing functionality is extracted and integrated directly into the touch screen's gesture recognition system, allowing content sharing to occur through standard touch gestures without requiring additional applications, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining reliable sharing function

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies merging by combining the content sharing function with the existing touch screen interface. Instead of using separate applications, the sharing capability is merged into the standard touch interaction framework, allowing users to share content using the same interface they use for other device operations, thus reducing complexity while ensuring reliable functionality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10114543B2Gestures for sharing data between devices in close physical proximity

Publication Date: 2018.10.30 AMAZON TECH INC

AI summary

The subject technology provides embodiments for sending digital content between proximate computing devices. The computing devices may each have varying display characteristics depending on the specifications of the device. A first computing device may display an interface including representations of digital items. A user may perform a gesture on a touch-sensitive display screen on the first computing device, which selects at least one digital item for sharing with another proximate computing device, in physical contact with the first computing device, in a direction of the gesture. Some embodiments further provide sending a digital item to multiple proximate computing devices using a multi-touch gesture. The multiple proximate computing devices may each have varying display characteristics.